Scholars recently found some pieces of very very old paper that included the story of King Arthur, Camelot, and the wizard Merlin.
The pages were found in a series of 16th century books deep in the archive of Bristol Central Library and are now being analysed by academics from Bristol and Durham universities.
The Vulgate Cycle is believed to be have been used by English writer Sir Thomas Malory as a source for his Le Morte D'Arthur, which is itself is the main source text for many modern retellings of the Arthurian legend in English.
As the article discusses, there's a chance there really was a King Arthur, but there may have been a few rulers of legend that had their stories combined.
Myth of King Arthur and Merlin revealed as experts discover seven pages of a 700-year-old manuscript telling the legend of Camelot
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